Sneezing monkey: the sneezing monkey is nicknamed 'Snoopy' for its nose up. This unique monkey lives in northern Myanmar and can be heard sneezing on rainy days. They also often bury their heads between their knees on rainy days, so people don't hear them sneezing all the time.
The smallest snail on earth: acmella Nana, a tiny snail from Borneo, defeated a snail from China and won the title of the world's smallest snail. They have a translucent white shell and are only about 0.7mm tall. They are so small that researchers can't see them naked in the wild. So they had to dig some soil out of the rainforest and look at it under a microscope.
Frightful birds: these giant flightless birds lived in South America about 50 million to 1.8 million years ago. In April, researchers announced the discovery of a new species of scarab off the east coast of Argentina. The 3.5-million-year-old specimen is the most complete fossil of the bird, with about 90% of its skeleton preserved. Research on the structure of its inner ear shows that the shockbird can hear low-frequency sounds, which means it can hear the footstep of its prey from a long distance.
Dementor wasp: researchers have named a newly discovered wasp Dementor, a ghostly creature in the movie Harry Potter. This wasp preys on cockroaches in an amazing way. It injects venom into the abdomen of cockroaches and turns their prey into immobile zombies. But the venom didn't actually kill the prey, which means the cockroach was eaten alive by the wasp.
Scavenger the size of a horse: this animal, ounalashkastylus tomidai, may not clean your house, but 23 million years ago, the mammal's nose was like a vacuum cleaner, able to inhale delicious seaweed or seaweed along the coast. This newly identified extinct animal belongs to the order chorodontodonta, which is the only known extinct marine mammal.
The two beautiful spiders, named skeletorus and sparklemuffin, are both peacock spiders, known for their bright colors and dancing courtship behavior. Both species were found in Australia, and showed differences among different species.
Giant sea scorpion: researchers found a human sized Sea Scorpion fossil while digging an ancient crater in the upper Edward River. This sea scorpion, which lived about 460 million years ago, is likely to feed on bivalves and eels. This ancient arthropod is closely related to horseshoe crab and Arachnida.
Four legged snakes: Modern snakes glide on their bellies, but 120 million years ago their ancestors moved on four limbs, with five toes on each foot. The new species was accidentally discovered during a fossil exhibition in a museum in Brazil. The museum labeled it as an unknown fossil, but David Martill, a paleontologist at the University of Portsmouth, looked at it carefully and was surprised to find that it had four legs.
Pig nosed bat with vampire teeth: a haunting rodent on the Indonesian island, it has been identified as a new species. This creature has a pig like nose and oversized teeth that make vampires jealous. Jacob Esselstyn, director of the mammal Museum at the University of Louisiana's Museum of natural sciences, said: 'I've never seen a bat with a nose like this, and when I first saw it, I knew it was a new species. '
Tyrannosaurus Rex's Vegetarian cousins: Tyrannosaurus Rex is famous for its powerful bite force and knife like teeth, but its craving for meat has not been found in its cousins. The newly discovered species, called chilesaurus Diego suarezi, was discovered in southern Chile in 2010. This 145 million year old dinosaur species is very strange. It belongs to theropod dinosaurs (mostly carnivorous dinosaurs), but it is completely vegetarian